Open AccessDescriptive data on cancerous lung lesions detected by auto-fluorescence bronchoscope: A five-year study
Author(s) -
Asmitananda Thakur,
Lin Gao,
Hui Ren,
Yang Tian,
Tianjun Chen,
Mingwei Chen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.91559
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , adenocarcinoma , pathology , bronchoscopy , lung , biopsy , bronchus , lesion , carcinoma , histology , large cell , hyperplasia , cancer , radiology , respiratory disease
Auto-fluorescence bronchoscopy (AFB) has been used for the identification and localization of intra-epithelial pre-neoplastic and neoplastic lesions within the bronchus.